<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, 7 Jun 2018 at 15:26, Daniel Dadap <<a href="mailto:daniel@dadap.net">daniel@dadap.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Obviously, position is semantically significant for rovers, but does it have any semantic significance for fixed-position verb suffixes?<br>
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I wanted to express “I obviously need to be able to speak Federation Standard”, which I initially composed as {DIvI' Hol vIjatlhlaHnISba'}; however, after checking my verb suffix types, realized that this was ungrammatical. However, the grammatically correct {DIvI' Hol vIjatlhnISlaHba'} seems like it should mean something else to me: “I obviously can need to speak Federation Standard.”<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>TKD explains the scope of each type of suffix. Later suffixes do not (necessarily) interact with earlier ones. (Things get weird with {-moH}, though.)</div><div><br></div><div>{jatlh} is the action. {-nIS} expresses that the subject needs to do it. {-laH} expresses that the verb refers to the ability to do the action. {-ba'} expresses that the speaker/writer of the verb thinks what it asserts should be obvious to the listener/reader. {DIvI' Hol vIjatlhnISlaHba'} is fine for your meaning.</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div>